Peeper and her three kittens are at a vet, where they’ve been since October. They are well now and ready to travel to their foster homes, but their bill has to be paid before the vet will release them, plus they all need to be vetted and spayed/neutered too.
Her ChipIn page is here.
If you would like to confirm with the vet or donate directly, the contact info is:
Pet Vac Animal Hospital
2920 Reidville Rd.
Spartanburg, SC 29301
(864) 574-6200
I know I’ve been posting a lot of these pleas lately, but it’s that time of year when the need is great and funds are low, you know?
First, the bad news: Remember Drum and Clairee? They were two of the Magnolias from a year ago. They were only here a couple of weeks before room opened up at the adoption center).
Well, Drum and Clairee were adopted together, and I got word last night that their owners are returning them to the shelter. Not because of Drum and Clairee (they said that they’re great cats), but because of life circumstances making it impossible for them to keep them.
Then, more bad news: Cindy Brady was returned last night. Again – not because of anything Cindy Brady did, just because of other issues in the lives of the people who adopted her.
(Okay, hold on. Just got an email from the shelter manager letting me know that Cindy had been adopted again! So that’s bad news turned good for Cindy!)
Now, updates!
First, remember Melodie and Dodger? They were in the same bunch (but not related to each other) as Martin and Moxie back in the late summer, early Fall. They were at the adoption center for a long time, and then were adopted together.
From their new mom:
Just wanted to update you on Dodger and Melodie. It’s been about 6 weeks and they have each gained a pound – maybe even more since being weighed 2 weeks ago! Our family has completely fallen in love with them both and they have the run of the house. We call Melodie Tabitha or Tabby now – for Tabitha Twitchit the cat in the Beatrix Potter stories. Dodger – well he’s just Dodger. No other name will do.
Are those some happy cats, or what? I am SO glad they were adopted together!!
Of course you remember Peter Brady (it hasn’t been that long!). He was adopted with Newton Q, another Challenger’s House kitten.
Their update:
We have renamed them, Peter Brady is now Mat, and Newton is now Perrin. These names are from the Wheel of Time novels, and their personalities do fit the names. Mat is into everything, running all over. Perrin is quieter, and slow to run in, investigating before.
They both quickly discovered our Cat Bridge, and are running acroos just like they were on the ground.
We are looking forward to sleep. they are calming down, but still want to play at 2am.
Isn’t that Cat Bridge neat? I’m trying to convince Fred we need something like that. I need to hush up ’til he gets around to finishing the front room before I start harassing him to add a bridge, though!
Jake, keeping an eye on the back yard.
Previously
2010: “God, what is that horrific SMELL?!”
2009: “Thank GOD you’re going for a cut and color. I didn’t want to say anything, but you have got some SERIOUS gray going on. It’s rather disturbing.”
2008: This is my entry in honor of [Spot].
2007: Obviously he just doesn’t love Joe Bob enough.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
2004: Okay, I promise that’s the last weepy I-miss-my-kitty entry.
2003: Bleach is the shit.
2002: Just for the record, Mike Tyson is the biggest fucking idiot in the entire world.
2001: How the hell am I going to get my ass on Survivor 3 if they’re looking for model types??
2000: I was quite excited, as I recall.
Wonderful updates for the most part. Fingers crossed for Drum and Clariee to find a new home.
The last picture of Tabitha and Dodger is so sweet it is killing me. I love that they are such buds and were adopted togeather!
Glad to see an update already on Peter & Newton Q. They went home in a carrier together and I guess were best friends on the spot from the looks of it! Glad Cindy got adopted. Poor Jan is still waiting. Maybe we should change her name to Oliver 🙂 I saw Drum and Clairee today when I went to the shelter. They are gorgeous cats now and not sure what the hell is going on, but I held them both for a little bit. I heard their daddy was really torn up about having to give them up. His wife sounds like a real piece of work.
“His wife sounds like a real piece of work.”
Now I REALLY want to know more about that situation!
Is it SOP for a vet to “impound” animals like that? That’s a bit shocking to me, especially if there’s a foster organization involved – I can kind of understand the vet needing to be hardline if it’s just some random Joe and they’re worried about not being paid, but even so, every day they keep the animal just adds to the bill and makes it that much more likely that they WON’T be paid, while they’re still spending money to care for the cats. Doesn’t seem to make good business sense.
And if they haven’t been vetted or spayed/neutered, what’s the vet been *doing* with them since October? For that matter, how are the kittens 4-5 weeks old – did the momma get pregnant while at the vet’s? This one confuses me very much. (Not so much that I’m going to try to call the vet’s office on a Sunday, though, ha)
Elayne, I believe that the kittens were that age when she was pulled from the kill shelter and delivered to the vet. Another mother kitten was pulled by the same rescue around the same time, and the mother couldn’t feed them, so they tried to have them nurse from Peepers. The whole lot of them came down with raging URIs. There’s a Facebook thread on them here (hopefully this link works) :
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1216028056381&set=a.1214102448242.26868.1699231279
Thanks for clearing it up – there was nothing on the Chip-In page when I checked and I was really baffled.
My bank account is in the red until next week (and I only wish I were exaggerating) but hopefully I’ll be able to help then…
Sorry I haven’t checked in for quite awhile. Been kinda busy with my own kitten fostering (which you inspired). I see you still have the Bookworms. You’ve had them for a pretty long time haven’t you? How long do you usually keep a litter before you take them in to be adopted? The 2 I have now I was only supposed to have for 2 weeks as they were so sick and they would have died at the shelter. They got over the respiratory sickness in about 2 weeks, but then had ringworm. Just finished the oral meds for that yesterday and Luvee developed an eye thing that is now much better as of yesterday. So now we’ve had them a month. They are very social and loving now. I’m thinking they’ll go back on Tuesday. At first we would keep a litter around 2 weeks, but now I’m thinking at least a month is needed for them to be fully social and loving. The ones I had only kept for about 2 weeks seemed to take longer to get adopted and the ones that are here longer were adopted within a week. Thoughts from you my Foster kitty momma Yoda?
Thanks
Yeah, March will be a year since they came to live with us. Hopefully Rhyme and Corbie will be going to Petsmart soon (when room opens up) for another try at being adopted.
I think that on average, kittens stay with us for about 2 months before they go to the adoption center. There are those who stay for shorter periods of time, and some who stay longer, but 2 months is about average. Really, it all depends on the kittens – some of them come to us perfectly socialized, and some of them need more time. In a perfect fostering situation, they come to us, get over whatever issues they arrive with (almost all of our fosters come to us with coccidia or giardia – or BOTH), and then have a few weeks to have the run of the house, get used to the noise of the TV, decide that the vacuum cleaner won’t eat them (or decide that it will!), and just generally relax into what it’s like to live in a house with people and other cats.
But really, it mostly depends on the kittens – I don’t think there’s any one answer to that, you kind of have to play it by ear. 🙂